United States v. Marafioti

RIFKIND, District .Judge.

This is an action to cancel the defendant’s certificate of citizenship on the ground that it was illegally and fraudulently procured in that defendant was not a person of good moral character for five years immediately preceding his admission to citizenship and in that he deceived the court with respect to his lack of good moral character and by such deception induced the court to grant the certificate.

The facts have been stipulated. The defendant’s petition for citizenship was filed on February 14, 1928 and on May 25, 1928 a certificate of citizenship was issued to…